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Thursday 30 April 2026
Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regeneration
Read more about Spray-on skin pioneer Fiona Wood to speak at UOW on innovation in skin regenerationThursday 30 April 2026
Eight UOW students awarded prestigious Westpac Scholarships
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Arts and Culture
A lost woman looks for purpose in a Guatemalan lakeside town
In The Sun Was Electric Light, Ruth arrives at Lake Atitlán a loner-searcher. But the people she meets are crucial to her struggles with the question of how to live
Science and Technology
Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans
300,000-year-old wooden tools found in southwestern China reveal surprising sophistication from the ancestors of modern humans
Arts and Culture
Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ
Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or revolutionary as it seemed
Health and Medicine, Students
A new ‘prac payment’ has just kicked in. But it ignores many uni students
Some nursing and teaching students will have access to a new $331 a week payment. But medical, physio and psychology students all miss out
Law, Politics and Society
‘I’m just exhausted’: sexual harassment at work is still rife. These new laws would help
From needing tougher penalties to stopping non-disclosure agreements silencing people, a new report shows Australia is falling behind on protecting workers
Environment and Energy
A carbon levy on global shipping promises to slash emissions
We calculated what that means for Australia’s biggest export